Newsweek says, We Fought Cancer… and Cancer Won in this article. There’s been some push-back to the Newsweek piece but for the most part the cancer blogosphere has let it pass by as people seem to accept the premise of the well respected magazine.

Newsweek did drew international ire with it’s article that claimed that interogators had flused a copy of the Koran down the toilet in Guatanemo according to this article.

The Newsweek article points out that since the 1971 signing of the National Cancer Act which President Nixon said was to make the “conquest of cancer a national crusade” the cancer epedimec has only worsened and may soon become the country’s #1 killer.

Cancer prevention has been effective, the reductions in smoking and increased screenings have had positive contributions, in fact contributing more than all the research dollars ever spent on cancer treatments, according to the Newsweek magazine article.